News Corp has plans to distribute a "national digital newspaper" as a paid app on phones and iPads, overseen by an editor at the New York Post. It will offer "short, snappy stories that could be digested quickly." How that's any different from the New York Post itself, and how the hell it will be any better than just getting the New York Times are both yet to be determined.

The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a long story on the suicide last month of Kevin Morrissey, an editor at the Virginia Quarterly Review. The story is already raising hackles (among the relatively small universe of VQR devotees) for its rehashing of workplace grievances.